Intertextual pursuits
Subtitle: literary mediations in modern Spanish narrative
By: edited by Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik.
Contributors: Brownlow, Jeanne P., 1937-; Kronik, John W.; Boudreau, H. L.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.; Intertextuality.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: This book brings together twelve essays that attest to the continuing viability of intertextuality, a widely recognized by-product of a cosmic readjustment in thinking about the nature and boundaries of texts. All the contributors to this collection are well versed in the theoretical implications of intertextuality. Their essays give repeated evidence that intertextuality is itself dynamically intertextual and that it is as endlessly fruitful as its myriad applications.

The essays further demonstrate that, whether theoretically in fashion or out of it, whether seen as rhetorical exercises, ideological statements, or philosophical meditations, intertextual pursuits remain the paramount adventure in the literary-critical enterprise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays in honor of H.L. Boudreau.
Table of contents: title: The death and life of intertextuality / Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik; title: Autobiographical selves as "Transpersonal beings" : Gibbon, Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Luis Goytisolo among others / Randolph D. Pope; title: Intertextual lives : Blanco White and Juan Goytisolo / Angel G. Loureiro; title: Intertextualizing genre : ambiguity as narrative strategy in Emilia Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder; title: The novelist at the opera : genre and intertextuality in Su único hijo / Hazel Gold; title: Mercedes Salisachs, Ideal womanhood, and the Middlebrow novel / Debra A. Castillo; title: Splitting the reference : postmodern fiction and the idea of history in Francoist Spain / David K. Herzberger; title: Intertextuality and the reappropriation of history in contemporary Spanish fiction and film / Gonzalo Navajas; title: The discursive field of Tiempo de silencio / Robert C. Spires; title: Nested intertexts in Galdós's Gerona / Diane F. Urey; title: The female body under surveillance : Galdós's La desheredada / Akiko Tsuchiya; title: The domestication of Don Juan in women novelists of modernist Spain / Roberta Johnson; title: Memes : intertextuality's of minimal replicators / H.L. Boudreau.